What are the qualifications team members bring to their roles in content development?
Despite being a small group, we have 40+ years of experience on DataStar among us with multiple degrees, including library science, history, modern languages and plant science and genetics, as well as experience as customers and customer support staff. We tend to divide tasks so that each of us works with specific information providers; however, any of us can handle an urgent job if the situation arises. Q: In layman’s terms can you describe the main tasks that the content development teams undertake at Dialog and give us some examples of what this entails? A: Our job is really quite diverse which is what makes it interesting. When an information provider sends us data, it is up to our team to do a number of things. We decide how the new database will look and function, write up designs and functions for the programmers to implement, test the resulting files, customize the database for Web-based products like DataStarWeb, write the DataStar Datasheet and BASE guide, and coordinate load
